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copied!<p>OK guys this is intreting,</p> <p>I'm testing this page</p> <p><a href="http://static.nemesisdesign.net/demos/ie8-strange/test.html" rel="nofollow">http://static.nemesisdesign.net/demos/ie8-strange/test.html</a></p> <p>on IE8 / windows XP.</p> <p>This is the code:</p> <pre><code><!DOCTYPE html> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en"> <title>Test</title> </head> <body> <div id="thisgivesmeanerror">test</div> <script> thisgivesmeanerror = 'test'; alert('this alert won\'t be fired on my IE8, what about yours?'); </script> </body> </html> </code></pre> <p>If I open this page with IE8 I get an error. If I change the code of the script to:</p> <pre><code><script> // note that I added var prefix var thisgivesmeanerror = 'test'; alert('this alert won\'t be fired on my IE8, what about yours?'); </script> </code></pre> <p>It works fine. This happens only on IE 7/8, didn't test it on IE6.</p> <p>What do you think? Does it happen to you also? Or is it just my browser that has gone crazy?</p> <h2>Addition</h2> <p>You're saying that is just not using the var prefix that cause the error? I'm sorry guys but you're wrong, you didn't take time to test the code.</p> <p>I uploaded a test2 page <a href="http://static.nemesisdesign.net/demos/ie8-strange/test2.html" rel="nofollow">http://static.nemesisdesign.net/demos/ie8-strange/test2.html</a> with the follwing cocde</p> <pre><code><!DOCTYPE html> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en"> <title>Test 2</title> </head> <body> <div id="thisgivesmeanerror">test</div> <script> thisdoesntgiveanyerror = 'test'; alert('This alert will be fired correcly'); </script> </body> </html> </code></pre> <p>That works fine.</p> <p>So what is actually causing the error? The variable name without the var prefix having the same name as the ID of the DIV element.</p> <p>Isn't this strange?</p>

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